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Method and apparatus for detecting movements of an object using volume change

US8096948B2 · kind B2 · utility

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17Claims

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Assignee

Tomtec Imaging Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

Marcus Schreckenberg · Freising, DE
Alexander Rossmanith · Germering, DE
Rolf Baumann · Villingen-Schwenningen, DE
Stam Kapetanakis · London, GB
Mark Monaghan · Croydon, GB

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 25, 2004
Grant date	Jan 17, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 22, 2027

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T2219/2012
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for visualizing movements of an object, preferably the movements of blood vessels during the cardiac cycle. The method includes scanning the object by at least a two dimensional ultrasonic image scanning apparatus at discrete acquisition times to acquire a data set by using surface reconstruction and/or volume rendering techniques. Next, the three-dimensional data set is partitioned into a plurality of volume units, wherein each volume unit has a unit surface. The method further includes calculating the change of volume of each volume unit over the acquisition times to obtain level information of each corresponding unit surface over time, and displaying the three-dimensional data set with its level information over time.

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